Faculty: Kenneth J Surin  

Kenneth J Surin
Title: Professor of Literature
Office Location: 106 Friedl Building
Office Phone: (919) 684-4364
Email Address: kenneth.surin@duke.edu
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Education:

  • PhD., University of Birmingham, England, 1977
  • BA (Hons), University of Reading, UK, 1972

Research Interests:  

(Ph.D. Birmingham, England, 1977) is Professor of Literature and Professor of Religion and Critical Theory. He trained initially as an analytical philosopher. His teaching areas include anglophone literatures outside England, philosophy (both analytical and continental), critical theory, marxism, state theory, and international political economy.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

Articles in a Journal

  • K.J. Surin. "‘Introduction: Theory Now?’." South Atlantic Quarterly 110 (2011): 3-17.
Articles in a Collection
  • K.J. Surin. "On Producing the Concept of the Concept-Image." The Philosophy of the Image Ed. Robert Mitchell and Jacques Khallip. Stanford University Press, 2011, 171-80, 266-67.
  • K.J. Surin. "‘’’Existing not as a Subject but as a Work of Art’: the Task of Ethics or Aesthetics?”." Deleuze and Ethics Ed. Daniel W. Smith and Nathan Jun. Edinburgh University Press, 2011, 142-53.
  • K.J. Surin. "‘C.L.R. James as Writer on Cricket’." Cambridge Companion to Cricket Ed. Anthony Bateman and J. Hill. Cambridge University Press, 2011, 131-43.
  • K.J. Surin. "‘On Going ‘Beyond the Pale of the Human’ (ケネススリン人間の境界を越えてゴーイングオン長原豊、エディタ )." Restoration of political economy and political philosophy (政治経済学の政治哲学的復権 ) Ed. Naghara Yutaka. Hosei University Press, 2011, 265-91.